DJANGO REINHARDT et le QUINTETTE du HOT CLUB de FRANCE
Andre Ekyan (as, cl)
Raph Schecroun (piano)
Django Reinhardt (guitar solo)
Alf. Masselier (basse)
Roger Paraboschi (drum)

RAI Studios, Rome, April / May

The next year there was another recording session in Rome without Grapelly and with André Ekyan, Ralph Schecroun, Alf Masselier and Roger Paraboschi, which is even considered to be worst. In the #600 of the french review "Jazz Hot" Roger Paraboschi relates ananecdote about it.

They were playing in Rome in a very smart night-club the 'Open Gate'. When they first arrived the proprietress asked them "Is there a guitarist in your band?". That prooved they had never listened to what they were playing. Django turned to Roger Paraboschi and told him "Find out about when there is a train, I am going back to Paris". Roger had to cool him down saying "Hold on we have just arrived, don't loose your temper". Then the proprietress asked them "They showed a movie here, with an
extraordinary guitarist, which was a huge success : Le Troisième Homme (The third Man). Do you know this tune?". They had never played it but they accepted. When the fated moment arrives, the head waiter opens the curtains behind Roger and makes a sign showing three fingers : "the Third Man". Django plays it, adding somme varaitions and then moves to another theme in the same tempo and the head waiter comes back and says :"So, are you going to play it?". How they all laughed. From this moment they used to play it two or three times each night. It is a pity it was never recorded, with some new variations every night it had become a 'chef d'oeuvre'. During the recording session, Roger Paraboschi asked Django to record it, but Django said : "Stop, I am fed up. We played it each and every night. That's enough".

The following recording recordings are available on this magnificent CD from Frémaux & Associés

Intégrale Django Reinhardt Vol 18, "I'll never Be the Same ", 1949-1950

Aniversary song

Stormy weather

Russian songs medley

Jersey bounce

Dinette

Sophisticated lady

Micro (Mike)

Dream of you

Nuages

Darktown strutter's ball

Danse norvegienne

A-Tisket a-tasket

Manoir de mes reves

Place de brouckere

September song

Royal garden blues

St-Louis blues

Sweet Goergia brown

Minor swing

Double whiskey (double scotch)

The following recording recordings are available on this magnificent CD from Frémaux & Associés

Intégrale Django Reinhardt Vol 19, "I'll never Be the Same ", 1949-1950

Artillerie lourde

St-James Informary

C Jam blues

Honeysuckle rose

Stompin' at savoy

Reverie

Impromptu

Black night

Boogie woogie    On this one, Ekyan plays with 2 isntruments at the time. Spautz p.116

Bolero

• Summer    Benny Goodman in Paris. A proposition is made to Django to go again in the US. Spautz p.116.

Paris, July

Double whiskey

Same date.

I got rhythm